In statistics, almost sure hypothesis testing or a.s. hypothesis testing utilizes almost sure convergence in order to determine the validity of a statistical...

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statistics in which the Bayesian and frequentist approaches to a hypothesis testing problem give different results for certain choices of the prior distribution...

The simulation hypothesis proposes that what one experiences as the real world is actually a simulated reality, such as a computer simulation in which...

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The Khazar hypothesis of Ashkenazi ancestry, often called the Khazar myth by its critics, is a largely abandoned historical hypothesis that postulated...

The expected utility hypothesis is a foundational assumption in mathematical economics concerning decision making under uncertainty. It postulates that...

as weak consistency. When we replace convergence in probability with almost sure convergence, then the estimator is said to be strongly consistent. Consistency...

named after the physicist Ludwig Boltzmann (1844–1906), who published a hypothesis in 1896, prior to the Big Bang Theory, that tried to account for the fact...

correctly. By privileging hypothesis testing, that is overlooked. It might make sense to pay more attention to hypothesis testing if it produced much useful...

Statistical inference is generally regarded as comprising hypothesis testing and estimation. Hypothesis testing can be done via AIC, as discussed above. Regarding...

(i.e. normal distribution). When IQ testing was first created, Lewis Terman and other early developers of IQ tests noticed that most child IQ scores come...

Educational Testing Service. The test is intended to assess students' readiness for college. Historically, starting around 1937, the tests offered under...

intelligence: Strong AI hypothesis: An artificial intelligence system can have "a mind" and "consciousness". Weak AI hypothesis: An artificial intelligence...

Other claims used to support the Black Hypothesis included anthropological measurements of Egyptian mummies, testing melanin levels in a small sample of...

conjecture). The term hypothesis is also used in this sense (for example, Riemann hypothesis), which should not be confused with "hypothesis" as the premise...

Rosenbaum, a scientist testing the hypothesis that three apes hitting keys at random on typewriters for an infinite amount of time will almost surely produce...

environmentalist and futurist. He is best known for proposing the Gaia hypothesis, which postulates that the Earth functions as a self-regulating system...

effects of nuclear testing. The Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty (1963) restricted all nuclear testing to underground nuclear testing, to prevent contamination...

form of dementia, most likely dementia with Lewy bodies. He bases his hypothesis on Hemingway's symptoms consistent with DLB, such as the various comorbidities...

The COVID-19 lab leak theory, or lab leak hypothesis, is the idea that SARS-CoV-2, the virus that caused the COVID-19 pandemic, came from a laboratory...

overlooked the intruder hypothesis, and Thomas because he believed the DA's office had interfered with and failed to support his hypothesis of the case. A grand...

that the multiverse is a philosophical notion rather than a scientific hypothesis, as it cannot be empirically falsified. In recent years, there have been...

theory known as rational choice theory, particularly in expected utility hypothesis. Expected utility theory relies on a property known as cancellation, which...

variance, so eventually it covers many orders of magnitude almost uniformly.) To be sure of approximate agreement with Benford's law, the distribution...

country. The second and third were posed as measures of the availability hypothesis; the fourth as a measure of familiarity. Rail density, when applied to...

one can derive a bootstrap confidence interval for the purpose of hypothesis testing. In regression problems, case resampling refers to the simple scheme...

these theories and give victims' family members peace of mind. The common hypothesis, cited also here, that MH370 avoided Indonesian radar is based only on...

are solved using a single negative mass fluid (one hypothesis). The theory should be directly testable using the Square Kilometre Array radio telescope...

poison in the beer it was almost certainly arsenic. Improbable as this hypothesis at first seemed, yet it was a valid hypothesis, for it was not known to...